Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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One-man spam campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill (politico.eu)

×6.04 83 | 87 points by cuu508 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025 (fortune.com)

×4.10 61 #77 | 212 points by ryan_j_naughton 9 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar (grumpygamer.com)

×1.65 46 #69 | 66 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study (surrey.ac.uk)

×3.49 36 | 257 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' (404media.co)

×5.55 35 | 296 points by locopati 22 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut (theregister.com)

×4.89 33 | 334 points by Bender 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons (ohyahapp.com)

×0.98 37 #67 | 57 points by gantengx 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1 (arxiv.org)

×2.58 85 | 26 points by chintler 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr (washingtonpost.com)

×19.20 30 | 119 points by Tadpole9181 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy (jacobin.com)

×4.76 34 #62 | 44 points by stareatgoats 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad (kau.sh)

×2.02 27 #47 | 210 points by freetonik 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodingFox – Open-Source AI Code Review Tool That Works Like Magic (github.com/furudo-erika)

×6.58 76 | 10 points by sunny-beast 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (techdirt.com)

×5.08 25 | 203 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America Is Drowning in Scam Calls and Texts and Donald Trump Is Making It Worse (techdirt.com)

×4.35 57 | 6 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad (bbc.co.uk)

×5.00 23 | 235 points by dijksterhuis 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spacelift Intent MCP – Cloud Infra Provisioning for Your AI Agent (github.com/spacelift-io)

×4.32 62 | 6 points by cube2222 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeLens.AI– Community benchmark comparing 6 LLMs on real code tasks (codelens.ai)

×3.38 48 | 5 points by skrid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones (techcrunch.com)

×4.68 19 #70 | 308 points by mdhb 21 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets (axiom.co)

×6.60 80 | 9 points by ucirello 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare (westpoint.edu)

×1.00 28 #41 | 36 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Empathy for Dummies (quarter--mile.com)

×1.15 27 #39 | 40 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doing Rails Wrong (bananacurvingmachine.com)

×2.44 16 #60 | 359 points by treesenthusiast 22 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I made $300K from an open-source side project using dual licensing (paritydeals.com)

×3.67 70 | 5 points by sachinneravath 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests (twitter.com/awesomekling)

×1.76 14 #90 | 932 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Recall: Give Claude perfect memory with Redis-backed persistent context (npmjs.com)

×2.06 58 | 4 points by elfenleid 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (theguardian.com)

×4.01 14 #86 | 449 points by fforflo 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German government comes out against Chat Control (xcancel.com)

×6.09 14 #28 | 1053 points by SolonIslandus 21 hours ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here (theatlantic.com)

×6.41 13 | 70 points by zerosizedweasle 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality (flux.community)

×3.72 11 #59 | 256 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (theverge.com)

×3.91 9 | 594 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 1266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Speak to AI – offline speech-to-text for Linux (alternative to Dragon) (github.com/AshBuk)

×1.64 31 | 3 points by AshBuk 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Express Auth Boilerplate – Clean Hexagonal Architecture for Node.js APIs (github.com/francemazzi)

×2.10 29 | 3 points by SaverioMazzi 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in D.C (spiegel.de)

×3.20 66 | 4 points by nabla9 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mirrow – Build SVGs with TypeScript, get syntax checking for free (mirrow.app)

×1.49 18 | 4 points by era37 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Become unbannable from your email (karboosx.net)

×2.44 9 #54 | 217 points by bfoks 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Keeps Shifting Right: Coping with the Limitations of Large Language Models (sturdystatistics.com)

×2.14 27 | 3 points by kianN 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vectrex Mini (vectrex.com)

×2.25 44 | 3 points by rbanffy 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT is a great tool for investment backtesting (reddit.com)

×2.38 50 | 3 points by wslh 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024) (3quarksdaily.com)

×0.83 8 | 58 points by tkhattra 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python 3.14.0 is now available (python.org)

×2.14 21 | 3 points by zvr 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting (bbc.com)

×2.47 7 #53 | 121 points by breve 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust (databento.com)

×1.98 14 | 3 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing a compiler-driven full-stack web framework (wasp.sh)

×2.01 11 | 3 points by franjo_mindek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CachyOS Keeps Spreading and Takes Second Place Among Linux Distros (boilingsteam.com)

×1.52 7 #45 | 10 points by ekianjo 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT (theregister.com)

×1.81 9 #33 | 9 points by rntn 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify (github.com/hunvreus)

×2.43 4 | 250 points by el_hacker 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The weaponization of travel blacklists (papersplease.org)

×2.59 7 #11 | 59 points by throw7 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents (paid.ai)

×0.94 4 #13 | 28 points by arnon 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI (ft.com)

×5.40 5 #8 | 60 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services (ca.gov)

×2.98 2 | 82 points by mikhael 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Senate Confirms 'Sharpiegate' Meteorologist to Lead NOAA (nytimes.com)

×2.12 3 #43 | 6 points by ceejayoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read (dragas.net)

×3.03 2 #3 | 155 points by miniBill 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (politico.com)

×3.49 1 | 327 points by c420 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TiVo exiting legacy DVR business (mediaplaynews.com)

×0.88 1 #58 | 75 points by TMWNN 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new bone substitute made out of 3D-printed glass (phys.org)

×0.98 3 #38 | 4 points by PaulHoule 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???